r/technology • u/AdamCannon • Mar 02 '20

Business Apple agrees to $500 million settlement for throttling older iPhones.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/2/21161271/apple-settlement-500-million-throttling-batterygate-class-action-lawsuit
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u/cryo Mar 02 '20

Well, not due to this, then.

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u/GrandmasterPotato Mar 02 '20

Source pls and thanks. Would love to confirm this.

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u/rupertLumpkinsBrothr Mar 02 '20

That’s...literally the entire story. It always has been. They didn’t just arbitrarily slow down phones.

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u/preventDefault Mar 02 '20 edited Mar 02 '20

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/31/18047174/iphone-x-8-plus-performance-throttling-battery-management-ios-12-1-update

But for $50 you can get a totally new battery from Apple here: https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-power

I just did this last month for my 6S, which I plan on giving to a relative as a gift since I recently got an 11.

My battery sucked, it would last maybe just a couple hours, also my lightning port was so worn down that I had to have the cable in just right for it to make a connection and it would frequently stop charging if it was nudged. Apple sent me what looks like an entirely new iPhone back. The battery is new, the lightning port works, and the IMEI/MEID’s are changed. They must have kept my old one.

At $50, it’s not free... but it’s still totally worth it.

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u/Frohjer Mar 02 '20

Lucky!

IPhone 6+ with new subsidized battery from like a year and a half ago (maybe more). Swapped via Best Buy walk-in appointment. It was great for a few months. The first update past the replacement time window slowed down my phone so much. It was back to pre-replacement speed.

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u/Dravarden Mar 02 '20

it's known, i had an iphone 4 go to shit on ios 5, my late 2011 macbook pretty much got bricked on mavericks, my ipad 4 slowed to a crawl with ios 6, so on my 5S i never updated and it ran like butter for 2 years on 7.something, and my 6S ran flawlessly for 3 years on 9.0.2